IPL Auctions 2024 | Chennai Super Kings Retained Players Full List, Remaining Slots & Purse Amount
CSK Team in 2023 [X.Com]
The day has arrived for all the IPL lovers. The IPL 2024 Auctions are just around the corner, and today is the deadline day for all the 10 teams to submit the list of players they have retained/released.
There is still 20 days left for the auctions in Dubai, but the IPL teams have already started their planning for the upcoming season.
This piece will cover all the details you need to know about the defending champions, Chennai Super Kings. The 5-time IPL champions won the 2022 season by defeating the Gujarat Titans, and have already started on a positive note, announcing that MS Dhoni, the skipper of the franchise will take part in the 2024 season.
MS Dhoni suffered from knee injury last season, and speculations were going around that the former India captain might miss the next season, or could potentially announce his IPL retirement.
Let us talk about the retained/released players list of the Chennai Super Kings.
Released players
Ben Stokes, Dwaine Pretorius, Bhagath Varma, Subhranshu Senapati, Akash Singh, Kyle Jamieson, Sisanda Magala, Ambati Rayudu.
Ben Stokes, one of the highest bought players last season, opted out of the IPL 2024 due to workload management. The England Test captain missed out on a number of games last season due to knee injury, and as a result pulled his name out of the next season.
Rayudu, the CSK stalwart has also been released by the franchise, Having joined CSK in 2018, Rayudu has won IPL on three occasions (2018, 2021, 2023).
Retained Players List
MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Matheesha Pathirana, Simarjeet Singh, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Nishant Sindhu, Ajay Mandal
Purse Remaining/Slots available
CSK will have 32.1 crore in their kitty when they head towards the IPL Auctions 2024 in Dubai next month. Moreover, they will have 6 slots to fill in during next month's auction.
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